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Critique of the Ontology of Intellectual Property Law

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This book provides a comprehensive critique of the idea that 'intellectual property' exists as an object that can be owned.

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1. Introduction; 2. Two ontologies; 3. Two abstractions; 4. Interim summary: an implausible paradigm; 5. The legal explanatory power of the two ontologies; 6. Normative critique of the abstract IP object.

About the author

Alexander Peukert is Professor of civil law, intellectual property, and competition law at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main/Germany. He has published five books and more than seventy articles in these fields, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of intellectual property law.

Summary

Alexander Peukert provides the first comprehensive critique of the idea that 'intellectual property' (IP) exists as an abstract object that can be owned. This book develops an alternative IP theory, according to which IP rights provide their holders with an exclusive privilege to use 'Master Artefacts'.

Product details

Authors Alexander Peukert
Assisted by Gill Mertens (Translation)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2024
 
EAN 9781108735728
ISBN 978-1-108-73572-8
No. of pages 217
Series Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law

LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Property, intellectual property law, Property law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, property law

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